Cisco Systems shares were sagging ahead of the company’s earnings report next week amid concerns about softening demand, among other factors. Cisco (ticker: CSCO) shares on Friday were down 2.2%, to $...
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FTX bankruptcy: Can account holders expect to get their money back?
FTX, the unraveling cryptocurrency exchange, has plummeted from its high-profile perch straight into bankruptcy court. On Friday morning, FTX and related entities including Alameda Research, its affil...
What the Stock Market and the Midterm Elections Have Common.
Investing and politics go together about as well as mango chutney and burned hair, and we prefer to focus on the stocks and leave the pontificating about the state of the nation to the Beltway pundits...
Should I do a Roth conversion to offset stock losses?
Q.: Dear Dan, We have roughly $45,000 in short-term & long-term losses this year from our brokerage accounts. Is the best move to sell some of our positive stock positions in our brokerage account...
Sell Intel Stock, Analyst Says. Market Share Losses Are the Concern.
An analyst at J.P. Morgan says sell Intel stock, citing concerns about the company’s loss of market share amid ongoing competition and softening PC demand. Following a period of restriction, J.P Morga...
‘Bitcoin will be the winner because bitcoin is a digital commodity and it’s the least controversial of everything’: MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor
“‘Bitcoin will be the winner because bitcoin is a digital commodity and it’s the least controversial of everything.’” — Michael Saylor, MicroStrategy In an interview Thursday morning on CNBC, MicroStr...
German Family Office Lennertz Raises Third European Private-Equity Fund-of-Funds
Family office Lennertz & Co. is raising a new fund to take advantage of investment opportunities created by recent market volatility and depressed valuations. Lennertz, which was founded by former...
FTX’s stunning collapse nothing like Theranos, says venture investor and crypto bull Tim Draper
Tim Draper, founder and managing partner of Draper Associates and Draper University, balked at comparing the stunning implosion of crypto trading platform FTX to the notorious biotech startup Theranos...
Stocks Rallied Dramatically. It’s Still a Bear Market
This commentary was issued recently by money managers, research firms, and market newsletter writers and has been edited by Barron’s. Bear-Market Rallies Technical Strategy BTIGNov. 11: Thursday...
FTX bankruptcy: Tom Brady, Steph Curry set to lose big from company’s collapse
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried lost his entire $16 billion fortune in just a few days after his company filed chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Friday, but he’s not the only high-profile investor ...
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Buys Up Intel, Mobileye Stock
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger recently has been buying up shares of the chip giant that he helms, but he has spent far more for shares of recently spun-off Mobileye which is developing autonomous driving te...
‘I have never before seen a CEO take responsibility as he does’: investor Bill Ackman comments on Sam Bankman-Fried in now-deleted Tweet
Bill Ackman, famous hedge fund billionaire investor, defended former chief executive of crypto exchange FTX Sam Bankman Fried’s leadership in a now deleted Tweet on Thursday. “You have to give @SBF_FT...
‘A lot of people have compared this to Lehman. I would compare it to Enron’: Larry Summers comments on FTX bankruptcy
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is likening the collapse of troubled cryptocurrency exchange FTX to the meltdown that engulfed Houston-based energy company Enron two decades ago. In an in...
Big Pharma Stocks Are Breaking Out. Here Are Some Winners.
Big pharma stocks are trying to break out to new heights. They have reported more-than-satisfactory earnings and are expecting further progress on new pipelines of drugs. These stocks had been outpe...
Crypto and tech are the first dominoes to fall as stimulus liquidity dries up, says this money manager. Here’s what could happen next.
Read: Sequoia on its FTX investment: Some surprise to the upside, and some surprise to the downside JPMorgan is predicting a “cascade of margin calls, deleveraging and crypto company/platform failures...
Bonds Look Attractive Now. Why Warren Buffett Doesn’t Like Them.
Text size Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Alex Wong/Getty Images Bonds don’t excite Warren Buffett even after the sharp rise in yields this year. The Berkshire Hathaway (ticker: BRK/A, BRK/B) C...
Elon Musk Made Unusual Request in Falling Out With Top Tesla Lieutenant
Last year, Elon Musk parted ways with one of his top deputies at Tesla Inc., a French auto-industry executive named Jerome Guillen. Mr. Guillen worked at Tesla for roughly a decade, rising to oversee ...
‘Voters are looking for help’: With control of Congress too early to call, here are 3 burning tax questions
A day after midterm elections, it remains uncertain whether either party will end up with Congressional control or whether it will be a divided Congress — and that has consequences for these tax quest...
Rivian shows ‘improvement’ but Wall Street remains cautious on the stock
Wall Street cheered “signs of improvement” for Rivian Automotive Inc., but remained cautious about the stock on worries that the electric-vehicle maker still faces a steep production ramp. Rivian RIVN...
NIO shares soar in Hong Kong despite earnings miss
NIO Inc. 9866, +17.06% shares soared in Hong Kong, tracking Wall Street gains overnight as slower-than-expected U.S. inflation buoyed markets and helped investors shrug off the Chinese electric-car ma...
Berkshire Hathaway Cuts Stake in U.S. Bancorp By More Than Half
A new filing indicates that Berkshire Hathaway cut its stake in U.S. Bancorp by 56% to 52.5 million shares that are now worth $2.4 billion. In a form 13-G filing dated Thursday, Berkshire Hathaway (BR...
FTX lent over half of its customer funds to affiliated trading firm: WSJ
Embattled crypto exchange FTX, once the third-largest crypto exchange by trading volume, reportedly lent more than half of its customer funds to its affiliated trading firm Alameda Research, exposing ...
Binance CEO in internal memo: ‘I had very little knowledge of the internal state of things at FTX’
“‘It was less than 24 hours ago that SBF called me. And before that, I had very little knowledge of the internal state of things at FTX.’” — Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao o...
Carvana’s Earnings Crash Spurs Bond Selloff
Carvana Co. ’s bonds are touching all-time lows, spotlighting investors’ concerns about the used-car seller’s long-term trajectory as it burns cash and faces rising borrowing costs. Carvana’s long-ter...
Amazon Has Lost $1 Trillion in Market Cap. Ouch.
Amazon.com has now lost more than $1 trillion in market capitalization, the most ever by a U.S. company and the first time one company has shed that much market value. It’s a painful reminder to inves...
Opinion: Pain and losses in crypto will clear out the losers and strengthen the case for bitcoin
Cryptocurrency is a mess right now. And rightly so. I wrote about buying bitcoin for MarketWatch in 2013 when it was trading for $100, but I’ve spent the past year or so warning that most newer crypto...